28 Jan
2012
28 Jan
'12
1:15 p.m.
Look, I am not
expecting every article to contain schematics and source
code. But when I read that 'Uni is a programming language that...' I kn=
ow
that the author doesn't know what the hell he
is talking about.
Is this a specific example? I've not heard of a language called "Uni" mys=
elf. I spent Yule Day at a friend's house in Edinburgh.
He collects old
phones and phone equipment. The house - quite big and rambling with a
bunch of guys living there - has an internal switchboard and
extensions in every room, including the bathroom, just for fun. There
is a live, active Strowger exchange in the hall cupboard, and another
in bits in the hall.
I see... That seems entirely reasonable. I'd like a small Strowger
exchange, but even small ones are large enough that I would have serious
problems accomodating one.
I am not a telephone collector, I leave that to others ;-). Point is that
while there are many styles and colours of telephones, there aren't that
many electornic designs [1]. But I do have a small collection of
'subscriber station equipment other than telephones' -- there's a 1970's
analoge fax amchine on the bench a the moment [2], I've got a
discrete-transistor snasweirng machine to work on soon, and so on.
[1] Although I would like to get one of the original Americal DTMF phones
with pot core inductors and just one transistor on the back of the
keypad. My ITTL 2500 has ICs in it :-(
]2] Strange technology. It's mostly discrete transistors, with a few
op-amps. And a custom MOS IC for the motor speed control :-(.
I tried to persuade him to join ClassicCmp - I think he'd fit in well. :=AC=
)
Me, obviously, I'm a fake. I had to whip out my smartphone and look up
what a "strowger exchange" /was./
Now if you knwew what a Lorimer exchange was I'd be seriously impressed :-)
-tony